“When
a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the
leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that
gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers
are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“A great industrial nation is
controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately
concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our
activities are in the hands of a few men … [W]e have come to be one of
the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated,
governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free
opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the
majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups
of dominant men.”- Woodrow Wilson

When we ponder the implications of allowing a small group of
powerful wealthy unaccountable men to control the currency of our nation
over the last one hundred years, we understand why our public education
system lacks.

We understand why the government created Common
Core curriculum teaches children that 3 x 4 = 13, as long as we feel
good about our answer.

George Carlin was right.

The owners of this
country (bankers, billionaires, corporate titans, politicians) want more
for themselves and less for everyone else.

They want an educational
system that creates ignorant, obedient, vacuous, obese dullards who
question nothing, consume mass quantities of corporate processed fast
food, gaze at iGadgets, are easily susceptible to media propaganda and
compliant to government regulations and directives.

They don’t want
highly educated, critical thinking, civil minded, well informed,
questioning citizens understanding how badly they have been screwed over
the last century.

I’m sorry to say, our owners are winning in a
landslide.The government controlled public education system has flourished
beyond all expectations of our owners.

There are more Americans who know the name of
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s bastard child (North West) than know the
name of our Secretary of State (Ketchup Kerry).

Americans can generate a
text or tweet with blinding speed but can't give exact change from a
dollar bill if our life depends upon it.

We are whizzes at buying
crap on Amazon or Ebay with a credit card, but have never balanced our
checkbook or figured out the concept of deferred gratification and
saving for the future.

While ignorant masses are worked into a
frenzy by the media propaganda machine over gay marriage, diversity,
abortion, climate change, and never ending wars on poverty, drugs and
terror, our owners use their complete capture of the financial,
regulatory, political, judicial and economic systems to pillage the
remaining national wealth they haven’t already extracted.The financial illiteracy of our uneducated lower classes and the
willful ignorance of our supposedly highly educated classes has never
been more evident than when examining the concept of Federal Reserve
created currency debasement – also known as inflation.

The insidious
central banker created monetary inflation is the cause of all the ills
in our warped, deformed, rigged financialized economic system.

The
outright manipulation and falsity of government reported economic data
is designed to obscure the truth and keep our populace unaware of the
deception being executed by the owners of this country.

They have
utilized deceit, falsification, propaganda and outright lies to mislead
the public about the true picture of the disastrous financial condition
in our country.

Since most people are already trapped in the mental
state of normalcy bias, it is easy for those in control to reinforce
that normalcy bias by manipulating economic data to appear normal and
using their media mouthpieces to perpetuate the false storyline of
recovery and a return to normalcy.This is how feckless politicians and government apparatchiks are able
to add $2.8 billion per day to the national debt.

A central bank owned
by Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks has been able to create $3.3
trillion out of thin air and pump it into the veins of its owners.

Government controlled agencies report a declining unemployment rate, no
inflation and a growing economy, without creating an iota of dissent or
skepticism from the public.

We Americans want to be lied to because it
allows us to continue living lives of delusion, spending more
than we make, consuming rather than saving, and believing stock
market speculation and home price appreciation will make us rich, as
viable life strategies.

Even though 90% of our population owns virtually
no stocks, we are convinced record stock
market highs are somehow beneficial to our lives.

We actually
believe Bernanke/Yellen when they bloviate about the dangers of
deflation.

Who would want to pay less for gasoline, food, rent, or
tuition?Unless we are beholden to the oligarchs, that sense of stress,
discomfort, feeling that all in not well, and disturbing everyday visual
observations is part of the cognitive dissonance engulfing our nation.

Any one of us who opens our eyes and honestly assesses our own financial
condition, along with the obvious deterioration of our suburban sprawl
retail paradise infrastructure, is confronted with information that is
inconsistent with what we hear from bought off political
leaders, highly compensated Ivy League trained economists, and
millionaire talking heads in the corporate legacy media.

Most of us
resolve this inconsistency by ignoring the facts, rejecting the obvious
and refusing to use our common sense.

To acknowledge the truth requires confronting our own part in this Ponzi debt charade disguised
as an economic system.

It is easier to believe a big lie than think
critically and face up to decades of irrational behavior and reckless
conduct.What’s In Our GDP

“The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is
one of the broader measures of economic activity and is the most widely
followed business indicator reported by the U.S. government.

Upward
growth biases built into GDP modeling since the early 1980s, however,
have rendered this important series nearly worthless as an indicator of
economic activity.

The popularly followed number in each
release is the seasonally adjusted, annualized quarterly growth rate of
real (inflation-adjusted) GDP, where the current-dollar number is
deflated by the BEA’s estimates of appropriate price changes.

It is
important to keep in mind that the lower the inflation rate used in the
deflation process, the higher will be the resulting inflation-adjusted
GDP growth.” – John Williams – Shadowstats

GDP is the economic statistic bankers, politicians and media pundits
use to convince the masses our economy is growing and our lives are
improving.

Therefore, it is the statistic most likely to be manipulated,
twisted and engineered in order to portray the storyline required by
the oligarchs.

Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth usually
marks a recession.

Those in power do not like to report recessions, so
data “massaging” has been required over the last few decades to generate
the required result.

Prior to 1991 the government reported the broader
GNP, which includes the GDP plus the balance of international flows of
interest and dividend payments.

Once we became a debtor nation, with
massive interest payments to foreigners, reporting GNP became
inconvenient.

It is not reported because it is approximately $900
billion lower than GDP. The creativity of our handlers knows no bounds.

In July of 2013 our government decided they had found a more “accurate”
method for measuring GDP and simply retroactively increased GDP by $500
billion out of thin air.

These adjustments pale in
comparison to the decades long under-reporting of inflation baked into
the GDP calculation.As John Williams pointed out, GDP is adjusted for inflation.

The
higher the inflation factored into the calculation, the lower the reported GDP.

The deflator used by the BEA in their GDP calculation is even lower than
the already bastardized CPI.

According to the BEA, there has only been
32% inflation since the year 2000.

They have only found 1.4% inflation
in the last year and only 7.1% in the last five years.

We’d have to be a
zombie from the Walking Deador
an Ivy League economist to believe those lies.

Anyone living in the
real world knows our cost of living has risen at a far greater rate.

According to the government, and unquestioningly reported by the
compliant co-conspirators in the the corporate media, GDP has grown from
$10 trillion in 2000 to $17 trillion today.

Even using the ridiculously
low inflation BEA adjustment yields an increase from $12.4 trillion to
only $15.9 trillion in real terms.

That pitiful 28% growth over the last
fourteen years is dramatically overstated, as revealed in the graph
below.

Using a true rate of inflation exposes the grand fraud being
committed by the handlers.

Our country has been in a never ending
recession since 2000.Our normalcy bias is telling us this is impossible.

Our government
tells us we have only experienced a recession from the third quarter
of 2008 through the third quarter of 2009.

So despite experiencing two stock
market crashes, the greatest housing crash in history, and a worldwide
financial system implosion, "authorities" insist we’ve had a growing
economy 93% of the time over the last fourteen years.

That mental
anguish we are feeling is the cognitive dissonance of wanting to
believe our government, but knowing they are lying.

It is a known fact
the government, in conspiracy with Greenspan, Congress and academia, systematically reduced the reported CPI based upon hedonistic
quality adjustments, geometric weighting alterations, substitution
modifications, and the creation of incomprehensible owner’s equivalent
rent calculations.

Since the 1700s consumer inflation had been estimated
by measuring price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods,
effectively measuring the cost of maintaining a constant standard of
living.

This began to change in the early 1980s with the Greenspan
Commission to “save” Social Security and came to a head with the Boskin
Commission in 1995.Simply stated, the Greenspan/Boskin Commissions’ task was to reduce
future Social Security payments to senior citizens by deceitfully
reducing CPI and allowing politicians the easy way out.

Politicians
would lose votes if they ever had to directly address the
unsustainability of Social Security.

Therefore, they allowed academics
to work their magic by understating the CPI and stealing $700 billion
from retirees in the ten years ending in 2006.

With 10,000 baby boomers
per day turning 65 for the next eighteen years, understating CPI will
rob them of trillions in payments.

This is a cowardly dishonest method
of extending the life of Social Security.If CPI was calculated exactly as it was computed prior to 1983, it
would have averaged between 5% and 10% over the last fourteen years.

Even computing it based on the 1990 calculation prior to the Boskin
Commission adjustments, would have produced annual inflation of 4% to
7%.

A glance at an inflation chart from 1872 through today reveals the
complete and utter failure of the Federal Reserve in achieving their
stated mandate of price stability.

They managed to reduce the
purchasing power of their dollar by 99% over the last 100 years.

We may
also notice the net deflation from 1872 until 1913, when the American
economy was growing rapidly.

It is almost as if the Federal Reserve’s
true mandate has been to create inflation, finance wars, perpetuate the
proliferation of debt, artificially create booms and busts, enrich their
Wall Street owners, and impoverish the masses.

Happy Birthday Federal
Reserve!!!

When we connect the dots we realize the under-reporting of
inflation benefits the corporate fascist surveillance state.

If our
government was reporting the true rate of inflation, mega-corporations
would be forced to pay their workers higher wages, reducing profits,
reducing corporate bonuses, and sticking a pin in their stock prices.

The economists at the Federal Reserve would be unable to sustain
their ludicrous ZIRP and absurd QE to infinity stock
market levitation policies.

If the clueless dupes watching CNBC bimbos and
shills on a daily basis were told the economy has been in fourteen year
downturn, they might just wake up and demand accountability from their
leaders and an overhaul of this corrupt system.Mother Should I Trust the Government?

We know the BEA has deflated GDP by only 32% since 2000.

We know the
BLS reports the CPI has only risen by 37% since 2000.

Should we trust the
government or trust the facts and our own eyes and pocketbooks?

The data are available to
see if government figures pass the smell test.

If we are reading
this, we can remember our life in 2000.

Americans know what it cost
for food, energy, shelter, healthcare, transportation and entertainment
in 2000, but we unquestioningly accept the falsified inflation figures
produced by the propaganda machine known as our government media.

The chart
below is a fairly comprehensive list of items most people might need to
live in this world.

A thinking individual might wonder how the
government can proclaim inflation of 32% to 37% over the last fourteen
years, when the true cost of living has grown by 50% to 100% for most
daily living expenses.

The huge increases in property taxes, sales
taxes, government fees, tolls and income taxes aren’t even factored in
the chart.

Gold has exposed the currency debasement and the
lies of our leaders.

This explains the concerted effort by the powers
that be to suppress the price of gold by any means necessary.

Living Expense

Jan-00

Mar-14

% Increase

Gallon of gas

$1.27

$3.51

176.4%

Barrel of oil

$24.11

$100.00

314.8%

Fuel oil per gallon

$1.19

$4.07

242.0%

Electricity per Kwh

$0.084

$0.134

59.5%

Gas per therm

$0.712

$1.078

51.4%

Dozen eggs

$0.97

$2.00

106.2%

Coffee per lb

$3.40

$5.20

52.9%

Ground Beef per lb.

$1.90

$3.73

96.3%

Postage stamp

$0.33

$0.49

48.5%

Movie ticket

$5.25

$10.25

95.2%

New car

$20,300.00

$31,500.00

55.2%

Annual healthcare spending per capita

$4,550.00

$9,300.00

104.4%

Average private college tuition

$22,000.00

$37,000.00

68.2%

Avg home price (Case Shiller)

$161,000.00

$242,000.00

50.3%

Avg monthly rent (Case Shiller)

$635.00

$890.00

40.2%

Ounce of gold

$279.00

$1,334.00

378.1%

Mother, you should not trust the government.

There is no doubt the private Fed and corporate government systematically under-reported inflation based on any impartial
assessment of the facts.

The reality that we remain stuck in a fourteen
year recession is borne out by the continued decline in vehicle miles
driven (at 1995 levels) due to declining commercial activity, the
millions of shuttered small businesses, and the proliferation of Space
Available signs in strip malls and office parks across the land.

The
fact there are only 8 million more people employed today than were
employed in 2000, despite the working age population growing by 35
million, is a clue that we remain in recession.

[The Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate is 63%, meaning 37% of our population is out of work. Not all of us are retired, let alone ready for retirement.

http://bit.ly/1rsaXrQ ]

If that isn’t
enough proof for us, than maybe a glimpse at real median household
income, retail sales and housing will put the final nail in the coffin
of our cognitive dissonance.

The government and their media mouthpieces expect us to believe we have advanced our standard of living, with median
household income growing from $40,800 to $52,500 since 2000.

But, even
using the badly flawed CPI to adjust these figures into real terms,
reveals real median household income to be 7.3% below the level of 2000.

Using a true inflation figure might cause a CNBC talking head to have
an epileptic seizure.The picture is even bleaker when broken down into the age of
households, with younger households suffering devastating real declines
in household income since 2000.

I guess all those low wage retail clerk, cashier,
caretaker, waitress, waiter, food prep, and housekeeper jobs created over the last
few years aren’t cutting the mustard.

Maybe that explains the 30
million increase (175% increase) in food stamp recipients since 2000,
encompassing 19% of all households in the U.S.

Luckily the banking
oligarchs were able to convince us pliable masses to increase our
credit card, auto and student loan debt from $1.5 trillion to $3.1
trillion over the fourteen year descent into delusion.

When we get our head around this unprecedented decline in household
income over the last fourteen years, along with the 50% to 100% rise in
costs to live in the real world, as opposed to the theoretical world of
the Federal Reserve and BLS, we understand the long term decline
in retail sales reflected in the following chart.

When we adjust
monthly retail sales for gasoline (an additional tax), inflation
(understated), and population growth, we understand why retailers are
closing thousands of stores and hurdling towards inevitable bankruptcy.

Retail sales are 6.9% below the June 2005 peak and 4% below levels
reached in 2000.

This is with millions of retail square feet added
over this time frame.

We know the dramatic surge from the 2009 lows was
not prompted by an increase in household income.

So how did the 11%
proliferation of spending happen?

The up swell in retail spending began to accelerate in late 2010.

Considering credit card debt outstanding is at exactly where it was in
October 2010, it seems consumers playing with their own money turned off
the spigot of speculation.

It has been non-revolving debt that has
skyrocketed from $1.63 trillion in February 2010 to $2.26 trillion
today.

This unprecedented 39% rise in four years has been engineered by
the government, using our tax dollars and the tax dollars of unborn
generations.

The Federal government has complete control of the student
loan market.

With 85% ownership of Ally Financial, the largest
auto financing company, Federal Government has a dominant position in the auto loan market.

The
peddling of $400 billion of subprime student loan debt and $200 billion
of subprime auto loan debt has created the illusion of a retail
recovery.

The student loan debt has been utilized by University of
Phoenix MBA wannabes to buy iGadgets, the latest PS3 version of Grand
Theft Auto and the latest glazed donut breakfast sandwich on the market.

It’s nothing but another debt financed bubble that ends in tears
for the American taxpayer, as hundreds of billions of bad loans are written off.The fake retail recovery pales in comparison to the wolves of Wall
Street produced housing recovery sham.

They deserve an Academy Award for
best animated fantasy production.

The Federal Reserve fed Wall Street hedge fund
purchase of millions of foreclosed shanties across the nation has
produced media proclaimed home price increases of 10% to 30% in cities
across the country.

Withholding foreclosures from the market and
creating artificial demand with free money provided by the Federal
Reserve has temporarily added $4 trillion of housing net worth and
reduced the number of underwater mortgages on the books of the Too Big
To Trust Wall Street banks.

The percentage of investor purchases and
cash purchases is at all-time highs, while the percentage of first time
buyers is at all-time lows.

Anyone with an ounce of common sense can
look at the long-term chart of mortgage applications
and realize we are still in a recession.

Mortgage applications are 35% below
levels at the depths of the 2008/2009 recession.

Mortgage applications are 65%
below levels at the housing market peak in 2005.

Mortgage applications are even 35% below
2000 levels.

There is no real housing recovery, despite the propaganda
peddled by the NAR, CNBC, and Wall Street.

It’s fraud disguised by inflation.It is the pinnacle of arrogance and hubris that a few Ivy League
educated economists sitting in the Marriner Eccles Building in the
swamps of Washington D.C., who have never worked a day in their lives at
a real job, think they can create wealth and pull the levers of money
creation to control the American and global financial systems.

All they have done is perfect the art of bubble finance in order to enrich their owners at the expense of the rest of us.

Their policies induced unwarranted hope and speculation on a grand
scale.

Greenspan and Bernanke provoked multiple bouts of bubble extreme
speculation in stocks and housing over the last 15 years, with the
subsequent inevitable bust collapses.

Fed encouraged gambling does not create
wealth.

It just redistributes it from the peasants to the aristocracy.

The Fed again produced an epic boom bubble in stock and bond valuations which will result in another bust collapse.

The average American has experienced a fourteen year recession caused
by the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve [and fiscal policies of elected representatives.]

Our present elected representatives could have
learned the lesson of two Fed induced collapses in the space of eight
years and voluntarily abandoned the policies of reckless credit
expansion, by instead embracing policies encouraging saving, capital
investment and balanced budgets.

Our elected leaders chose the same cure as the disease, which leads to crisis, catastrophe and collapse.“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom
brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the
crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of
further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of
the currency system involved.” – Ludwig von Mises

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-24/fourteen-year-recession

Regards,

Richard <Ricardo Carlos> Charles

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